South Carolina Stands "Stand Your Ground" on its head

[rankandfile]

If this defense succeeds, then the whole state has fallen down the rabbit hole.

Excerpt:

COLUMBIA, SC — An armed intruder is making a “Stand Your Ground” argument in a murder trial, saying he shouldn’t be prosecuted for shooting and killing the man whose home he broke into because it looked as though the man was about to shoot him first.

The state’s 2006 “Stand Your Ground” law effectively allows people to claim “immunity from prosecution” when they have used deadly force to deal with and even kill people in various situations if they believed they were being threatened by them.
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Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2013/07/10/28563...rylink=cpy

[Lemon Drop]

reading that full article, it sounds more like a technical issue around when certain hearings have to take place, rather than anything about the substance or validity, in this case, of a SYG defense.

[SteveG]

2A fans celebrate a close victory over sanity.

[Bill in NC]

iirc SYG laws generally stipulate you must have the legal right to be on that ground, but a trespasser wouldn't.